Artist Blog
Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.
1/10 Photographer with his setup at the sea-park in Turkmenbashi. After the break-up of the USSR the town, formerly Krasnovodsk, was renamed in honor of the first Turkmen president. Turkmenistan. 2011
2/10 Fence surrounds Renaissance Hotel in Atyrau - a new oil capital of Kazakhstan. A tiny fishermen town started its rise since the giant Kashagan oil field was discovered nearby. The inhabitants of the town live with both fears of possible ecological catastrophe and hopes for improved life standards. Kazakhstan, 2012
3/10 An official of Narimanabad village in his office. Azerbaijan. 2010
4/10 Youngest member of Kadjar family, who claim to be the royal family in Azerbaijan, stares at copies of ancient Iranian paintings in the family house in Baku. Azerbaijan. 2012
5/10 View to Awaza, a new luxury resort, called Caspian Las Vegas being built on 6.5 square miles of desert. Dressed in the marble and gold the resort remains empty. Turkmenbashi, 2011
6/10 A women stays near her house in abandoned soviet holiday camp at Kenderli beach. Current the camp is demolished and soon will become a luxury resort with planned 6 billion dollars investments. Kazakhstan. 2011
7/10 Internally displaced people from Karabakh live in cardboard homes at abandoned industrial factory in Baku since twenty years. They have never got any aid from government despite managed to build new life in these inhuman conditions. Azerbaijan. 2010
8/10 A museum of Cosmos in Ashgabad, the capital of Turkmenistan that holds five Guinness records; the latest is having “the most white marble-clad buildings” in the world. Turkmenistan, 2013
9/10 A room is decorated for Nauruz National holiday in Baku. Azerbaijan. 2011
10/10 Beket Ata holy pilgrimage site. Kazakhstan, 2011
Mila Teshaieva – Promising Waters
Sep 07, 2017 - Shane Lavalette
Every year Light Work invites twelve artists to come to Syracuse, New york to devote one month to creative projects. Over 400 artists have participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program since its inception. The residency includes a $5,000 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art facilities, and generous staff support. Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: Light Work Annual along with an essay commissioned by Light Work, and many of these artists form the basis for Light Work’s exhibitions program.
Featured here for the coming week are six recent Artists-in-Residence, including Morgan Ashcom, Rose Marie Cromwell, John Edmonds, Regine Petersen, Pacifico Silano, and Mila Teshaieva. Find more information about Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program, how to apply, and discover more past AIR at lightwork.org/air
Mila Teshaieva has been exhibited around the world and in past years she had solo exhibitions in State Museum of European Cultures Berlin, Haggerty Museum of Art, Alma Lov Museum in Sweden and Museum Art of West Coast in Germany. Her monograph Promising Waters (Kehrer 2013) was named a Select Title of the German Photo Book Award, and in 2016 she published her second monograph InselWesen. She lives in Berlin and currently works on her long – term project in Balkans.